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Eating Disorders

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

The Philosophical Theme of Gattaca by Andrew Niccol

25A). Human beings have been striving to achieve Utopian status ever since Adam and Eve were stricken from the Garden of Ed...

Atavism Themes in Literature

In 5 pages the atavism themes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and William Golding's Lord of the Flies are contrasted and comp...

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, and Individuality

In 12 pages the naivete of individuality as it is thematically developed in both novels is examined. There are no additional sour...

Artists Joseph Mallord William Turner, Henry Purcell, and Robert Schumann

In five pages this paper considers Baroque and Romantic music and visual arts from a social perspective with the music of Purcell ...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Henry James' Turn of the Screw and Evil

the Suppression of Savage Customs in which he claims that the white man in Africa must "necessarily appear to them [savages] in th...

“The Heart of a Chief” by Joseph Bruchac

character who is important as he is a DJ and creates sort of a connection for the kids to the outside world in many ways. He is a ...

Time Themes in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

radicals that Verloc has been spying upon. Now, time is not his friend. The element of time is narrowed considerably after this ...

The Theme of Alienation as it is Portrayed in Novels of the 20th Century

"alienation has especially come to signify the difficult relation between the individual and his sense of difference and distance ...

Catch-22

the desire for power possessed by the officers in a way that is very defining. With an understanding of the importance of this c...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Henry Ford as He Appears in Doctorow's Ragtime

to society is well known and many see this as admirable. Yet, there are some critics. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is the b...

A Comparison, Poe and Longfellow

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

Four Structures in Oklahoma City

are no readily discernible passive features that accommodate solar heat collection; however, the portico does offer shelter from r...

Prostitution and Perceptions of the 18th Century

of friendship and acceptance brings the woman to the point where she feels remorse and wants to repent. She begins to cry and apo...

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...

Walden and Civil Disobedience Examined Critically

of submitting to such solitude seems to be particularly poignant in todays society, where we all live such hectic, fast-paced live...

Theme of Desire in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Henry V

namely, the crown/ And all wide-stretched honours that pertain/ By custom and the ordinance of times/ Unto the crown of France" (S...

Themes of Fantasy and Reality in Woody Allen's Film The Purple Rose of Cairo

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

Book Review of Henry James' Daisy Miller

of Henry James work. James was both an author and a playwright and indeed he left a legacy of tremendous artistic accomplishments...

Comparing Shakespare's 1 Henry IV and Richard II

championing the people who had initiated his ascent to power, Henry IV turned his back on them, and transformed himself into a dis...

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

any Indian I have ever met" (Hook, 1991, 99). Chief Josephs and his...

Literature and the Theme of Appearance versus Reality

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

Psychological Articles Summary and Overview

author defines compromise formations as "the data of observation when one applies the psychoanalytic method and observes and/or in...

Theme of Fantasy versus Reality in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...

A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House and the Theme of Appearance versus Reality

seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...

Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer by Miller

to be good, kind, generous, loyal, and so forth, since I was free of envy.... On the contrary, I have only felt pity for everybod...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Dreams of Joseph in Genesis 37

In two pages this paper examines Genesis 37 in terms of Joseph's dreams and their significance. There is no bibliography included...

Materialism and Walden by Henry David Thoreau

rejection of the American dream likely came before he had embarked on this personal journey. He had some insight into the problem ...